“I love 30, man,” gushes the Los Angeles singer and songwriter, who releases his second album, “Magazines or Novels,” on Aug. 5. “It’s a good time. I’ve got a full band, I’m on the road, we’ve got lights. It’s all working out.

“And when you live in L.A., everybody pushes it back so far. It’s not the same as it is around the rest of the country. If you’re 30 in L.A., everybody thinks you’re still a kid, so it’s really not that big a deal.”

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Grammer, who began his career busking in Santa Monica during the late ’00s, is more interested in focusing on “Magazines and Novels.” It follows his self-titled debut by three years, with the EP “Crazy Beautiful” during the interim, and Grammer cites Imagine Dragons, Kanye West and Imogen Heap as some of the sources he drew from this time out.

“The first album was like a conversation with someone, just you and me. This one feels a little more vulnerable, like a conversation with a best friend, a little deeper,” Grammer explains. “The hardest part for me is to get great songs, so I spent about a year and wrote at least 100 songs to get the 12 I thought really did something.

“Once you have that, you can have a lot of fun producing it in a lot of different ways. I think my fans will think, ‘Oh, Andy’s using that kind of sound. That’s kinda crazy. I didn’t expect that.’ And hopefully they’ll be into it.”